In The Heights to receive London Premiere

Tony Award-Winning Broadway Musical In The Heights To Receive Its London Premiere At Southwark Playhouse From Friday 9 May To Saturday 7 June 2014   Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In The Heights will receive its London Premiere in a brand new production in The Large at Southwark Playhouse from Friday 9 May(press night Thursday 15 May at 8.00pm) it was announced today. On sale […]

Poilu and Tommy

The pressures of war, patriotism and family are strikingly churned together by Théâtre Volière in the latest work from Anglo-French company Jolly Good Show as we are thrust back in time to the years leading up to and including the Battle of the Somme.  Almost a century has passed since the earth encountered its first World War yet Poilu and […]

The A-Z of Mrs P

This new musical by Gwyneth Herbert, Sarah Travis and Diane Samuels tells the story of Phyllis Pearsall, a painter who it’s said walked 3,000 miles around 23,000 of London’s streets to create the A-Z atlas, although this is now regarded as something of an exaggeration. Far-fetched or not it’s an intriguing subject for a musical […]

Occupied – a new dark comedy to open at Theatre 503

OMANIAN IMMIGRATION TACKLED IN NEW DARK COMEDY AT THEATRE503   OCCUPIED By CARLA GRAULS   Tuesday 1 – Saturday 26 April 2014   Battersea’s Theatre503 and Hurlyburly Theatre Company will debut new play exploring the Romanian experience in the UK – OCCUPIED, by award-winning writer Carla Grauls. In this darkly comic play two Romanian immigrants, driven by a desire for belonging, kidnap an Englishman to […]

A Hard Rain open at Above The Stag

A new drama set in New York 1969 on the eve of the Stonewall riots. Written by Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper Directed by Tricia Thorns New play A Hard Rain made its world premiere last night at Above the Stag.     Taking its name from the Bob Dylan protest song A Hard Rain takes a hard look at what […]

Full cast announced for UK tour of Dirty Dancing

FULL CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR THE UK AND IRELAND TOUR OF WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON DIRTY DANCING – THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE   NOW BOOKING TO SUMMER 2015   The Producers of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage are delighted to announce full casting for the 2014-2015 UK and Ireland tour.   Gareth Bailey will […]

Stars join forces to in charity concert ‘Run, Fat Boy Run’ in aid of Scope

As part of his fundraising for the Virgin London Marathon, Andrew Bateup presents his concert ‘Run, Fat Boy Run’ on Sunday 16th March, 7:30pm at The Actors Church, Covent Garden. Andrew is 24 years old and graduated from The Royal Academy of Music in 2012. Upon graduating, he joined the UK tour production of ‘Joseph […]

I Can’t Sing postpone the start of previews further

Stage Entertainment and Syco Entertainment, the producers of I Can’t Sing! at the London Palladium, have decided to postpone the beginning of preview performances due to a technical problem with one of the show’s set pieces.   An integral part of the stage mechanism for the show’s set is currently not operating correctly and this […]

David Ribi has Tea With Wilma about West End Fests

For those who may not be familiar with you work, can you tell me about some of your career highlights? I’ve had the pleasure of working on some great shows over the years. I spent two years playing the lead in DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS (West End and European Tours), last year I danced all over […]

Ghost Stories

‘Ghost Stories’ has finally returned to the West End after successfully terrifying over 300,000 people since it first opened. Now almost three years has gone past and it could not have picked a better venue than the intimate Arts Theatre in Leicester Square, as the setting to make its return. Mark Dyson and Andy Nyman […]